How To Install prelude-lml-rules on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-lml-rules on Kali Linux.

What is prelude-lml-rules

prelude-lml-rules is:

The Prelude Log Monitoring Lackey (LML) is the host-based sensor program part of the Prelude SIEM suite. It can act as a centralized log collector for local or remote systems, or as a simple log analyzer (such as swatch). It can run as a network server listening on a syslog port or analyze log files. It supports logfiles in the BSD syslog format and is able to analyze any logfile by using the PCRE library. It can apply logfile-specific analysis through plugins such as PAX. It can send an alert to the Prelude Manager when a suspicious log entry is detected.

This package contains all rules (or signatures) for Prelude LML.

There are three methods to install prelude-lml-rules on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install prelude-lml-rules Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml-rules using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install prelude-lml-rules

Install prelude-lml-rules Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml-rules using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install prelude-lml-rules

Install prelude-lml-rules Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml-rules using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prelude-lml-rules

How To Uninstall prelude-lml-rules on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the prelude-lml-rules package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove prelude-lml-rules

Uninstall prelude-lml-rules And Its Dependencies

To uninstall prelude-lml-rules and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-lml-rules

Remove prelude-lml-rules Configurations and Data

To remove prelude-lml-rules configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-lml-rules

Remove prelude-lml-rules configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove prelude-lml-rules configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-lml-rules

Dependencies

prelude-lml-rules have the following dependencies:

References

• prelude-lml-rules website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-lml-rules package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.